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Is it extremist to be pro immigration? Or are they extremely pro immigration?

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There are some very vocal anti-immigration people in Canada - like the grandparent post.

It is not anti-immigration to not want to be the fastest growing country in the world.

Indeed. If you can’t protect yourself from your government’s efforts to keep wages suppressed through importing labor while also ignoring the housing crisis, it is logical to be anti immigration. That’s not racist or xenophobic, that’s economic self preservation.

C'mon, no.

In Canada it's openly discussed that recent immigration policy could be excessive. It's not a fringe anti-immigrant viewpoint, it's discussed in the media and at the dinner table.

Canada is a very pro-immigrant country, but there is nuance in the discussion

https://abacusdata.ca/unmasking-public-unease-with-canadas-i...

They are so pro immigration that they are extremists. The American equivalent would be your population growing by 14 million in the last year. Would you support this? Our unemployment rate is rising and we have a severe housing crisis but they will not reduce the rate.

US gets approximately 0.5% to 0.7% population growth from immigrants, Canada is gets around 1% to 1.2%.

But US gets 2+ million illegal immigrants annually, which adds another 0.6%.

So US and Canada both have very similar immigration rates after all.

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